Archive for September 17th 2012

Residents were evacuated from homes in an Oxfordshire village as crews tackled a fire in a workshop.
Firefighters and police were called to the property in Enstone Road, Little Tew, at about 14:30 BST.
Thames Valley Police said the road through the v...

A man has died in a fire in Greater Manchester which is thought to have been started by a discarded cigarette.
Fire crews were called to a ground-floor flat on Trowbridge Road in Denton just after 06:00 BST.
A 52-year-old man was rescued by firefight...

A four-foot long snake missing for weeks was found safe after falling from the roof of a burning house in Essex.
The four-foot carpet python was in the roof of the property in Pledgdon Green, Henham, near Bishop's Stortford, when a fire broke out at ...

A homeowner had a lucky escape after a Chinese lantern caused a fire in Flintshire.
North Wales Fire and Rescue say the incident at Hilltop Close, Ewloe, highlights one "hazard" in using lanterns.
It burned through plastic on a conservatory roof, lea...

Firefighters attending a fire at a recycling plant in Derbyshire said it could take up to three days to put out.
About 8,000 tonnes of wood and sawdust at the centre in Lows Lane in Stanton-by-Dale, near Ilkeston, started burning on Saturday night.
T...

A toaster sparked a house fire which took 50 firefighters to extinguish.
The fire broke out at a home in Lyneham near Chipping Norton at about 13:00 BST on Saturday, Oxfordshire Fire Service incident commander Jason Crapper said.
The blaze spread to ...

Thousands of tonnes of wood and waste has been destroyed in a fire at a recycling plant in Derbyshire.
Emergency crews were called to the fire on Lows Lane in Stanton-by-Dale, near Ilkeston, at about 22:30 BST on Saturday.
About 8,000 tonnes of mater...